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ear on something you know would
be highly cherished?
Did it ever occur to you, Stanley,
while sitting at the fireside of your
large and palatial home in .Lake For
est with your loving wife and family,
if through financial reverses you
were made a poor man, hunger and
poverty might come knocking at
, your door? Perhaps your mind nev
O er gets a chance to drift off your mil
lions, but I'll say this much if you
' exercise your thought in what you
would do if compelled to work by the
sweat of your brow, your feeling for
union labor and all mankind would
be entfrely different
Stanley, ypu, I suppose, have chil
dren of your own. Think of their
future. Your heart and soul, like
every other father's, is to see them
go ahead through life in happiness.
So use the same consideration for
the poor men and women who toil
night and day at the Conway build
ing, whose aim is also to bring a lit
tle pleasure in the hearts of loved
ones at home.
I hope, if Mr. Cochran publishes
myletter, you will look at it in a hu
man light and grant whatever is
asked by the striking janitors of the
Conway building. W. D. Griffiths.
THE WORKMEN AND WAR. I
thought I would drop a few lines to
the readers of The Day Book on the
every-day complaint, "War, What
For?" Is if any benefit to me or any
others of the working class? Why ts
it we only hear or read a few lines in
the trust papers about the new com
pulsory military bill? I suppose that
just suits Major McCormick, the
great war colonel in seven lessons. I
expect he got his seven lessons in
the war from Bull Moose Teddy's
book.
It is about time for the workers to
make a holler before they rush the
bill through congress.
Again the H. C. of L.! Eggs are
scarce, but if you have the money
you can get all you cart buy. The
same with coal and lots of pther
things
There is only one way to end war"
that I know of: Take the kaiser and
the kings and presidents and all the
rest that want war and put them in a
ring and let them fight it out as the
gladiators used to, and then I gues'
you would not hear them hollering
for war. Frank Snider, 918 S. Fair
field Av.
TO KELLAM FOSTER. You say
that you are against nonpartisan
elections because you believe that
officials- who would be elected on a
nonpartisan slate would be a danger
to the working class because they
would be uncontrolled by a political
party. You further say that the Re-
puDlican ana uemocrauc parue&
must exist for the following reason:
"Any pbwer seeking to enact into law
a policy or a single measure must
control these officials," and so,
Friend Foster, if these are the only
arguments "you have against non
partisan election, you certainly are
wrong. '
According to your own statement,
if the gas company or any other pub
lic corporation desires to grab a long
franchise all the head of such cor
poration must do is to see the polit
ical "boss," who in turn issues orders
to those in authority to enact such
a measure into, a city ordinance or
state law, and who do you think does
such a law favor? The corporation
or the public? You kn6w, Friend
Foster, as well as I do, that a refusal
on the part of any such men in au
thority to vote in the council or leg
islature against the wishes of the po
litical "boss" would mean for the par
ticular official digging his own po
litical grave. Why? "What is the
answer? Political organization.
Now let us digest the nonpartisan
idea. Say the undersigned will be
elected as your next mayor and you
will be the next alderman of your
ward, including the other 34 or 69
alderman on a nonpartisan slate, and
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